Forte Tax & Law – First place in Customs Dispute category of Delovoy Peterburg legal rating

The legal rating of Delovoy Peterburg, which comes out every year, not only acknowledges the year’s most outstanding lawyers, but also ranks law firms by branches of law based on the cases submitted for review. What makes this rating special is that the winners are voted in by the legal community.

We are proud to announce that a case handled by Forte Tax & Law has been recognized by Delovoy Peterburg rating as a watershed case in the category of Customs Disputes.

The project submitted to the vote entailed the representation of client interests in a dispute with customs authorities over the recovery of recycling charge on self-propelled vehicles. Our lawyers managed to prove in three instances that it is not sufficient to consider only customs code to subject a machine to recycling charge, and all the characteristics of the machine need to be taken into account to apply this charge. Almost all manufacturers and importers of self-propelled equipment faced a similar problem, and our watershed case was the first to reach and be upheld in the cassation instance.

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